OLYMPIA — State lawmakers agreed Thursday to add $1.2 million to the current budget to help with the Carlton Complex fires relief effort. Another $500,000 could be on the way with House and Senate approval.

Chad Holaday, owner with wife Amanda of Holaday’s Custom Muffler & Fabrication, has installed so many exhaust systems in the last seven years that he can fit, bend and weld a new Honda Accord muffler pipe with hardly a second thought.

EAST WENATCHEE — Grant Road will be closed between Nile and Union avenues Jan. 13 through 15 for sewer and irrigation line installation needed for the runway-lengthening project at Pangborn Memorial Airport.